Not sure how .NET holds up against Java but for the last decade or so its been common knowledge that .NET on Windows was way way faster than most of the interpr

Not sure how .NET holds up against Java but for the last decade or so its been common knowledge that .NET on Windows was way way faster than most of the interpreted web frameworks out there (PHP, Ruby, etc etc). Compiled vs interpreted, its pretty obvious. This 2013 post about Stackoverflow being served by just two IIS servers is fairly legendary: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/11/22/what-it-takes-to-run-stack-overflow/#core-hardware https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/11/22/what-it-takes-to-run-... My point being, I thought .NETs performance was pretty well regarded already fwiw. edit: here you go, ranking of web frameworks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=ph&test=composite https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=... ASP.NET Core 3.1 holds up pretty well, only beaten by C++, Rust, and a Java/Kotlin Framework called Jooby